[07:10] <alkisg> Has anyone tried jammy-live-server-amd64.iso? I'm trying to install it with 2 "custom partitions" (ext4+swap), and it keeps crashing...
[07:14] <alkisg> Meh, it appears it can't handle ext4+swap; by leaving the defaults partitioning, it continued
[07:26] <alkisg> ...and it created a GPT disk even though it was already formatted in MBR and booted in BIOS mode :/
[07:46] <ravage> there is nothing wrong with GPT in general :D
[07:47] <ravage> i can test the live iso. but maybe you can just file a report with the logs it creates?
[07:56] <ravage> alkisg: swap 2G and rest ext4 works here
[07:57] <alkisg> ravage: thank you for testing; was that MBR/BIOS?
[07:57] <ravage> it only lets me select GPT buy es its not UEFI :)
[07:57] <ravage> *yes
[07:58] <alkisg> I also didn't like the part where it didn't allow me to reuse an existing partition, it wanted me to format it...
[07:59] <ravage> im not a big fan of the installer in general :)
[07:59] <alkisg> I ended up installing on a temporary disk, squashfs'ing it, then moving it to the proper destination
[07:59] <ravage> but i did not try that right now
[07:59] <ravage> my new jammy installer for my servers is a bash script from PXE to avoid it :D
[07:59] <alkisg> Yeah I think it's a long way from filing bug reports to fix minor issues...
[08:00] <alkisg> The old-style installer isn't available anywhere now, is it?
[08:00] <alkisg> E.g. mini.iso or netboot.iso?
[08:00] <ravage> it is not :(
[08:00] <alkisg> #$(#*&(#$*& if you'll allow me that language :D
[08:00] <ravage> :D
[08:01]  * alkisg has piled up several lines of code to undo all the new style stuff, from netplan to snap...
[08:01] <ravage> im back to debootstrap :D
[08:01] <alkisg> ravage: what are you using for server networking? E.g. netplan, ifupdown, nm, networkd?
[08:02] <ravage> i left netplan in place for now
[08:03] <ravage> yaml is a good config format in general as long as you dont have to manually edit it on the console at the datacenter
[08:03] <ravage> and i dont have to do that myself often :)
[08:04] <alkisg> The reason for netplan to exist never made sense for me; a third "common" format as a layer above nm or networkd; eh, just choose one of them and create a converter, don't create a third format...
[08:08] <ravage> yes. most of my servers are debian anyway. they keep adding reasons to stay there :)
[12:04] <tarzeau> lotuspsychje: if you want to try photoqt ?
[12:04] <tarzeau> ravage: do you have some automatic for partitioning/filesystemwriting apart from debootstrap?
[12:05] <tarzeau> alkisg: we also have a pile of undoing all the new style stuff .. would like to compare/see yours </telepathy>
[12:06] <tarzeau> ravage: i wasn't able to persuade my management yet to move back to debian :'( maybe next LTS (24.04)
[12:07] <tarzeau> i was wondering if there's people using/buying ubuntu-advantage, who they are, and how they're happy with it?
[12:36] <ravage> tarzeau: for now it only does some basic partitioning. only dynamic part is that it will create a RAID1 if 2 drives of the same site are found
[12:36] <tarzeau> ravage: no md, lvm, xfs, btrfs support and any combination of them?
[12:37] <tarzeau> ^ because that's what i'll be needing, but i plan to do it myself anyways, and also release it as part of revised ruptime implementation
[12:41] <ravage> the raid1 is lvm
[12:41] <ravage> but i dont plan to replace all partitioning schemes of the debian installer
[12:42] <tarzeau> i have these two things:
[12:43] <tarzeau> https://github.com/alexmyczko/autoexec.bat/blob/master/diskcom (well not really related to the partitioning part, but i have fun with it)
[12:43] <tarzeau> http://www.aiei.ch/gnustep/install.txt hopelessly outdated, but i'd build on that
[12:44] <tarzeau> https://github.com/alexmyczko/ruptime for rdisks (not yet implemented) it'll print all storage devices, sorted by speed (read speed, but that's enough for me)
[16:11] <lotuspsychje> tarzeau: photoqt launcher is a default gear here
[16:12] <lotuspsychje> the app itself looks great
[18:26] <tarzeau> lotuspsychje: have fun :)